It's a great visual novel detective game with some rough edges. Excellently written, striking character portraits, really catchy music and it does a lot to make you actually solve the murder without taking off all the reins (i.e. case of the golden idol or Obra Dinn) or relying on nonsensical and tedious court cases like the ace attorney games often do. And the ending chefs kiss.

That being said the Switch version is littered with bugs, and audio issues, that I am told will be addressed at some point. The background and cinematic art looks rough (still serviceable but noticeably lower quality) to say the least. The action point system also feels a little underdeveloped worsened by several UI decisions.

But the core of the game: the mystery, gathering clues, and finding contradictions, the characters, the character design and the portraits shine through its flaws. It's a more toned down and down to down-and-earth vn detective game, that managed to give me the experience I wanted from games like Paradise Killer and Ace Attorney but never got. It made me care about solving the case, and learning more about the characters. By the end, I knew who did it, yet the last thing I wanted to do was solve the case, because it would mean the end of the found family that I had grown to love.